Claude Lorrain

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Claude Lorrain

1600-1682

Landscape with Aeneas and Achates Hunting the Stag

1669

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk on laid paper.

9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (251 x 353 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 273

Notes:

Claude dedicated this drawing, which he signed and dated, to one of his last major patrons, the Florentine prince Paolo Francesco Falconieri (1626-1696). The subject, which Claude explored in several drawings leading up to a painting executed in 1672, is an episode from Virgil's Aeneid. Having arrived on the coast near Carthage with his fleet of seven ships (visible in the harbor at left), the Trojan hero Aeneas goes hunting with his companion Achates and kills seven stags to feed his men. -- Exhibition Label, From "Poussin, Claude, and French Drawing in the Classical Age"

Inscription:

Signed and dated at lower center, "illmo sig falconier/Claudio in facit [sic]/Roma 1669". Inscribed on old mount, in pen and brown ink, in Roupell's hand, "R P R/Claude./one of the fifty drawings selected by Messrs. Woodburn for Exhibition in 1835-/It forms no 28 of the Claude drawings from Sir T. Lawrences collection. The/description in this Catalogue is as follows./Landscape. a rich woody and rocky scene near the ocean-on the right an Eminence/crowned with trees and a Sybils Temple-In the centre on a platform of rock Achates is seen shooting at the herd of deer in the/valley-The ships of Aeneas are seen at anchor in the creek-a most magnificent/composition. free pen and bistre wash- Superb./From collections of the Marquis Vindé-Sir T. Lawrence/Mr. Esdaile".
Watermark: figure with cross and halo in shield (see Briquet 7628: Fabriano, 1602).

Provenance:

Gilbert Paignon-Dijonval (1708-1792), Paris; by descent to his grandson, Charles-Gilbert (1759-1842), Vicomte Morel de Vindé (according to Roupell's inscription on mount; no mark; see Lugt 2520), Paris; Thomas Dimsdale (Lugt 2426), London; Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445), London; Samuel Woodburn (no mark; see Lugt 2584), 1835; William Esdaile (Lugt 2617), London; his sale, London, Christie's, 30 June 1840, lot 61; Reverend Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), Oxford; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 June-10 July 1866, lot 1241; Robert P. Roupell (1798-1886), London (Lugt 2234); his sale, London, Christie's, 12-14 July 1887, lot 1283; Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (1840/41-1893), Paris and London (no mark; see Lugt 2473); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9-13 December 1889, lot 1057; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

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Associated names:

Paignon-Dijonval, 1708-1792, former owner.
Morel de Vindé, Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte, 1759-1842, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1758-1823, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, former owner.
Roupell, Robert Prioleau, 1798-1886, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 273, repr.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, no. 55, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 23.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 25, repr.
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain. The Drawings. 1968, no. 990.

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